In the following paper, I propose to explain some of the ways this particular policy, results in unfair and unequal monetary awards to some and not others. ... For example, the Fund will subtract any money received from pensions, and life insurance policies. ... The amount recovered from any life insurance policy they had had the foresight to purchase would be subtracted from their already-low compensation award (due to the low income of the victim). So instead of being rewarded, they are penalized for doing the responsible thing by getting a life insurance policy. ...

• Word Count: 1988
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The challenge before us is translating this idea into workable policy solution that is appropriate for the Queens New York local government. In conjunction with the local representative, the bill was introduced in the house and together with his colleagues discussed the need of free child care for parents with two children by focusing specific policy strategies including strengthening the bargaining power of the parents in workplaces, expanding the earned income tax credit for the parents, and increasing the minimum wage and indexing it to inflation. These also includes parents getting free tr...

• Word Count: 1064
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The issue may arise because the child does not have insurance and the only hospital that can provide this procedure is a private for-profit hospital that will not accept uninsured individuals without upfront payment. ... The future of health care and human services is sure to lead to policy struggles, increased technology and privacy laws and the need for advocates to fight for the rights of those in need. ... This course helped me to realize the ways that social policy and government regulations impact health care and human services. I have worked in health care for several years now but ne...

• Word Count: 1443
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Under a universal health insurance system, all individuals covered should be provided with care regardless of their monetary status. ... It will go on to list the various policy options, their strengths and weaknesses, and their likelihood of being implemented across Canada. ... What Are the Various Policy Options? ... The first area of intervention, modified primary care tactics, falls under the umbrella of health policy. ... The implementation of such primary care models would take considerable health policy reformation. ...

• Word Count: 2325
• Approx Pages: 9
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The poor are not provided with the resources to either safeguard their passage into poverty or to avail of policies that would serve to improve their assets and entitlements in order that there is flexibility in their mobility from poverty for good. ... The safety nets of welfare and insurance preserve such acquisitions and are thus not a reliable reference to poverty status showing patterns of poverty often misinterpreted. ... In the USA a steady decrease in those of the poor population having health insurance has been seen in 32% less receiving employer-provided benefits (Federman). ...

• Word Count: 1993
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Unless our government commits to ending homelessness through public education, policy advocacy, and technical assistance, homelessness will become a national disaster for the United States. ... Stagnating wages, lack of health insurance, domestic violence, changes in social services and welfare programs, cuts in benefit programs, such as Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Food Stamps and Elderly Assistance, single parent families, drug addiction, mental health problems, natural disasters, job displacement due to military actions, and affordable housing shortages account for increasing ...

• Word Count: 2494
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They were severely mentally ill, for instance, or end-of-the-line substance abusers-people incapable of caring for themselves, unable to keep themselves housed, and newly visible because of drastic changes in policies that had previously kept them institutionalized in hospitals or jails. ... There seems to be an economic path to homelessness, through rent hikes beyond incomes, unemployment, low wages, or some combination thereof (Loveland 241) The electoral emergence of the New Right in the 1980s under the governments of Margaret Thatcher in Great Britain and Ronald Reagan in the United Stat...

• Word Count: 4318
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: Undergraduate